{"data":{"id":"us-ca/wic-14115.1","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"WIC § 14115.1","heading":"","body":"The department may not require that any hospital based physician submit a combined charge, which includes the physician and hospital charge, if it is not the customary practice of such physician to submit a combined charge. The physician’s right to bill independently shall be respected by the department; provided, however, this shall not prevent the department from enacting reasonable regulations to insure that the total charges, when a hospital and physician bill separately, do not exceed the total charge when both bill for the same services in a combined charge.","path":["Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC","DIVISION 9. PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES [10000. - 18999.98.]","PART 3. AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE [11000. - 15771.]","CHAPTER 7. Basic Health Care [14000. - 14199.97.]","ARTICLE 3. Administration [14100. - 14124.16.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"7a36c81d62f1f62aa3a1d15769dbab553ca818da569d2823f2bdf5aa399fb8bc","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/wic-14115","next":"us-ca/wic-14115.2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}